More Innovations For Development

Een Gillis

Profiles over 80 technical innovations in the field of development, covering five main subject areas: water, energy, forestry, farming and fishing.Information about appropriate technology available to developing countries is common. What is not often achieved is a flow of the actual technologies the...

Opening the Marketplace to Small Enterprise

Ton de Wilde

Addressing three fundamental issues - how to find financial support, how to improve products, and how to access markets - this book describes proven innovative answers to the obstacles facing small enterprise, together with entrepreneurial case studies.

Providing Food Security For All

Mohiuddin Alamgir, Poonam Arora

This book is by Mohiuddin Alamgir and Poonam Arora with an introduction by Idriss Jazairy. This book from IFAD is an in-depth user-friendly study of global food security, focused at the household level, which includes dozens of revealing figures, charts and tables. This introduction to global food s...

Action and Knowledge

Orlando Fals-Borda

Muhammad Anisur Rahman

Technical problems require technical solutions that are innovative, simple, cheap, robust and easy to maintain. This book lists 100 winning inventions in the first International Inventors Award competition, organized in Stockholm.

Cereal Banks - At Your Service?

Abdou Salam Fall

Food security is one of the major concerns of people living in sub-Saharan Africa. In recent years, cereal banks have become a widespread and popular response to the problem. This book presents, in the form of a story, some of the main questions and issues surrounding the setting up and running of a...

Changing Perceptions

Tina Wallace, Candida Marsh

Women's needs and abilities are often ignored by development planners; even 'women's projects' often reflect gender stereotypes which maintain a prejudicial situation. These collected articles give an overview of many aspects of gender and development.

To Cure All Hunger

Simon Maxwell

Few countries face as grim a prospect of food insecurity as the Sudan - bankrupt, at civil war, and ravaged by drought. To Cure All Hunger looks at the scope and the content of appropriate interventions, growth, income, and command over food security. A close study of the causes, dimensions and cons...

Try Drying It!

Barrie Axtell

Shows how improving on the traditional techniques of drying by sun and air can provide income-generating activities for groups in the developing world. Examples from Peru, Colombia and Bangladesh; with detailed technical appendices.

Village Animal Healthcare

Barbara Grandin

In many developing countries access to veterinary services is a particular problem in rural areas, and poor farmers suffer significant losses due to preventable livestock diseases. This book describes three Intermediate Technology programmes built from local knowledge.

War and Famine in Africa

Mark Duffield

This study shows how internal wars are fought on a terrain of semi-subsistence economies, with the result that the traditional strategies of coping with famine are destroyed. Up to half all the people who suffer from food insecurity in Africa have been affected by war. Local conflict is a long-term...